Isis is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs and is celebrated in their mythology as the ideal mother and wife, patron of nature and magic; friend of slaves, sinners, artisans, the downtrodden, as well as listening to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats. and rulers.[1] Cultures leaving evidence of religious beliefs in images, existed in many parts of what became unified as Ancient Egypt for almost 10,000 years. The myths about deities changed over time during the thousands of years of Egyptian culture. Records exist that go back to approximately 3,000 B.C. Many are graphic and some are written in one of two scripts that have been deciphered. Shortly after 2,500 B.C., during the fifth dynasty, the first written records concerning their worship of Isis appear. Later myths about Isis are more familiar to modern readers than the early ones because her cult survived until well into the Christian Era, with temples remaining in existence until the middle of the 600s A.D. The Romans spread her worship to the farthest reaches of their empire after they occupied Egypt in 32 A.D. This followed the invasion of Egypt by Alexander the Great and a Greek occupation for three hundred years beginning in 330 B.C. Although in different degrees, the Greeks and the Romans adopted deities from the Egyptian pantheon and often interpreted some of their own deities as having a parallel with some of the Egyptian deities. This gave some of their Roman and Greek deities an earlier history than their own?and implied a longer history for themselves. Many of the Egyptian deities were merged and renamed with those of the Greeks and Romans, but a few remained relatively unchanged. Isis is one who retained a unique Egyptian nature while being worshiped in other cultures.